apporter
French, verb/a.pɔʁ.te/
apporter is spelled A-P-P-O-R-T-E-R (8 letters) and appears 40 times per million words in written French, the 2,074th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apporter is a French verb meaning “to bring (something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Porter quelque chose à quelqu’un. – Note d’usage : L’objet du verbe apporter est toujours un inanimé”.
What does apporter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bring (something)
- 2
to take
- 3
to give (support), to give, supply (explanation etc.)
- 4
to bring (improvement, freedom etc.)
- 5
to bring in (funding)
- 6
to bring about (change, revolution)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Porter quelque chose à quelqu’un. – Note d’usage : L’objet du verbe apporter est toujours un inanimé. 2. Fournir soi-même une partie de quelque chose. 3. Donner, procurer un conseil. Alléguer, citer. 4. Causer, produire.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of apporter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- apportant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- apporté participle past
- apporte first-person indicative present
- apportes indicative present second-person
- apportons first-person indicative plural
- apportez indicative plural present
- apportent indicative plural present
- apportais first-person imperfect indicative
- apportait imperfect indicative singular
- apportions first-person imperfect indicative
- apportiez imperfect indicative plural
- apportaient imperfect indicative plural
- apportai first-person historic indicative
- apportas historic indicative past
- apporta historic indicative past
- apportâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apporter?
- /a.pɔʁ.te/
- \a.pɔʁ.te\
- [a.pɔʁ.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to apporter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apporter in French?
apporter appears 40 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).